Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...escaped into the woods, and eventually notified federal authorities. The men accused labor manager Harlan and his foremen of using the forested landscape to entrap laborers and conceal debt peonage...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...increase from forty-four to sixty-seven the number of post offices in Accomack and Northampton counties. The advent of the railroad in 1884 further stimulated the establishment of post offices both...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...of southern deindustrialization and Asian labor markets. Who makes what where, when, and why depends on a chase around the globe for cheap labor that involves overlapping waves of industrialization...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...demolition and disposition of public housing apartments, the waiting lists for public housing units were in the hundreds of thousands. Moreover, the HUD report on "Worst Case Housing Needs"—sent to...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Business," Memphis Business Journal, October 15, 2004, 1, 50. The presence of Federal Express also influenced Northwest Airlines' decision to establish a Memphis hub for passenger flights. For more than...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...and cover the monthly mortgage payment in an informal housing market similar to the encargado system among El Salvadorians in the suburbs of Long Island, New York.3In Long Island one...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...damage (above) and Signs about housing demolition (below), Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. Well before Katrina and before the US housing/mortgage crisis officially began in 2007, local, regional,...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...of an article: "Risky Crusing, Don't" [sic].34"Risky Crusing, Don't," The Nuntius 1, no. 20 (August 1970): 12. http://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/Assorted%20Pubs/Nuntius/nuntius-1-2-8-70.pdf. Interestingly, the nonstandard spelling of cruising as "crusing" is consistent in this...